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Created byDr. Xion August 31, 2008 20:43:44
Last update: January 22, 2011 12:48:08

It's probably more useful to make the JavaScript executor a bookmarklet. That way it gains access to the page on which it is invoked. Therefore, more helpful while debugging. Here's the code:
<html>
<body>
<a href="javascript:(funct...
Or, you can add this link to your bookmarks, name it "JS Executor". For a full featured JavaScript console, you may need Jash

Created byJameson July 04, 2009 16:30:40
Last update: January 11, 2011 21:21:59

If you are looking for a solution for a progress bar, I direct you to the following resources: Bare Naked App provides a simple and elegant solution based on pure CSS with two images. You control the percentage of completion through the background-position attribute of the CSS. HTML: <img src="/images/percentImage.png" alt="... CSS: img.percentImage { background: white url(/imag... Images: (percentImage.png) (percentImage_back.png) WebAppers extended the above solution with JavaScript. They also added several colored images: JQuery UI has a built-in progress bar widget. However, if you want to get to understand some of the foobar needed to get CSS to work (in general) through this example, stay with me for the rest of this note. Initially I was thinking, a progress bar should be easy: just make...

Created byJameson September 07, 2010 03:11:39
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:28:33

I didn't know how hard it was to vertically align something to the middle until I had to do it. An excellent writeup about the various techniques (or should I say hacks?) to achieve this is here: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/ Here I present a technique with the help of jQuery. To make it simple, what I'm doing is to display a single line of text in the middle of the page instead of at the top. The markup is made simple because the logic is moved to JavaScript. There are two requirements to make this work: The parent container uses relative positioning jQuery code added to re-position the content with absolute positioning <!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Vert... For some reason, the following code did not work although...

Created byJameson July 19, 2009 20:51:23
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:14:18

If CSS3 border-image is properly supported, making a rounded corner box is very easy. You just need a round corner image like this: The following markup: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ... would render like this (try it in Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome): However, IE as of version 8.0 does not support border-image . So until border-image is reliably supported in all major browsers, we still have to rely on tried and true tricks to make it work. In general, I found three general categories of tricks to make rounded corners: Good old tables. This trick creates a table of 9 cells and uses the 8 cells on the perimeter to render the borders and rounded corners. The central cell is used for...

Created byJameson January 10, 2011 16:37:20
Last update: January 10, 2011 16:37:20

The following page injects CSS rules with JavaScript. It works fine in Firefox and Chrome.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascrip...
But in IE, it breaks with "Unknown runtime error" (seemed like it's trying to interpret the curly brackets in the CSS as JavaScript blocks!):
In order to make it work in IE, the code need to be changed to:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascrip...
The tricks to identify IE and insert new CSS rules came from Paul Irish .

Created byJameson July 19, 2009 23:29:42
Last update: July 19, 2009 23:33:24

Existing techniques use background images to make round corners. I present a technique here that uses four foreground images: .
I think this technique is easier to understand and use. The only requirements are:
Add position: relative to the CSS for the box to be rounded
Matching border and color between the box to be rounded and the corner images
Here's the HTML with static elements:
<!doctype html public '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' ...
The markup is even easier if we use jQuery to add the corners dynamically:
<!doctype html public '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' ...
This is the result:

Created byDr. Xion April 22, 2007 21:58:45
Last update: January 19, 2009 20:26:12

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